Science and Technology

How one Chinese company’s AI tool has slashed trillions from the US stock market, and revealed a future for technology without American tech hegemony. By Nuvpreet Kalra Last week, a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, released R1, a large-language model rivaling ChatGPT,…

Most people learn to count and do basic arithmetic at a young age and don’t give these skills a second thought. But numerosity or numeracy, the ability to think about and use numbers, is more than a basic skill: It…

The explosive growth of humanoid robots represents a prominent transformation in China’s innovation landscape during 2024. As an influx of capital stimulates the emerging sector, human-like machines are being honed to superior agility and their versatile applications are becoming increasingly…

Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with California-based weapons company, Anduril, to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system, which was tested in California at the end of November, permits the sharing of data between…

On 12-13 December 2024, the AI4HER APAC Conference took place in Seoul at the Hanyang Institute of Technology Conference Hall. It focused on promoting ethical and human-centered applications of artificial intelligence, emphasizing and fostering diversity and inclusion, particularly by empowering…

In a new study led by researchers at Wuhan University, scientists have developed a filter, made with cotton and squid bone, that can be used to adsorb certain microplastics in aquatic environments. Further, they determined the filter was about 98%…

When asked in Arabic about the number of civilian casualties killed in the Middle East conflict, ChatGPT gives significantly higher casualty numbers than when the prompt was written in Hebrew, as a new study by the Universities of Zurich and…

Over the past couple of years I’ve noticed advertisements offering FREE CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Precision Manufacturing Training at local community colleges such as the Nashua Community College in Nashua, New Hampshire, and the Center for Manufacturing Technology, in Woburn,…

An interview with renowned economic historian Michael Hudson on where our calendar comes from, his collaborations with the late intellectual David Graeber, and the long-lost practice of forgiving debt. By Jan Ritch-Frel Is the order of the modern alphabet connected…

Coral reefs throughout the world have suffered immensely from global heating due to human-caused climate change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — the largest coral reef system in the world — has experienced four mass bleaching events in seven years, leading to die-offs in up to half of…